Hurricane Watch

by Franklyn Mansfield Branley

Book Overview

Describes the origin and nature of hurricanes and ways of staying safe when threatened by one of these dangerous storms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064450627
• ISBN13: 9780064450621
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.8" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Lot of information

Hurricane Watch (Let's Read and Find Out) My copy doesn't say the level for this book. It seems a bit more detailed than others but it is still easily read and understood. It thoroughly covers AIR, how much it weighs how it moves. There are sketches to accompany the information. Then it gets into hurricanes. There is historical info and maps showing where previous hurricanes have traveled. Then we get into the good stuff. Descriptions of what it is like when a hurricane is coming to your town. The dark sky, the rain and wind. The damage it causes. After that scary stuff it explains how satellites let us know when a hurricane is brewing so we can get out of it's way and prepare for it. Weather planes fly into the storms to give us information we need to help understand hurricanes. If you can't leave your home it tells what kinds of things you will need such as flashlights, battery radio, matches, food and water.

Great book for a young meteorologist

I read this book when I was five years old, and even now (17 years later) I remember what a vividly informative book it was. The author communicates skillfully; the information is not only palatable to a young audience, but presented very engagingly.